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Narrative
Elwood Curtis’ college dream is shattered along a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he is sentenced to the underworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reform school deep in the Jim Crow South. He meets another pupil, Turner, who has seen it all. The two black teenagers strike up an alliance: Turner excuses his parents, and he is sentenced to a life of his own.